AI & RoboticsNews

Paid, the AI agent ‘results-based billing’ startup from Manny Medina, raises huge $21M seed

September 30, 2025
Manny Medina, previously best-known as the founder of sales automation startup Outreach ($4.4 billion valuation), has wowed investors with his young startup, Paid. Paid just closed an oversubscribed $21.6 million seed round led by Lightspeed. With the €10 million pre-seed round it raised in March, London-based Paid has already raised $33.3 million and hasn’t even hit its Series A yet. A…
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NewsPhotography

Puffin bathed in golden light wins Scavenger Hunt Photo Contest 2025

September 30, 2025
Sixteen-year-old Anwen from South Wales, in the United Kingdom, won a bunch of Canon photo kit and got her photo printed on the front cover of The Week Junior Science+Nature magazine. Her capture, titled Golden Hour, shows a puffin bathed in golden light, its beak brimming with sand eels. “I had been dreaming of a photo of a puffin during golden hour ever since I started wildlife…
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Cleantech & EV'sNews

How CATL is changing EV battery tech in Europe [Video]

September 30, 2025
Electric vehicles have come a long way, but let’s be real—they still have their hangups: “range anxiety,” long charging times, and questions about safety and sustainability. But what if all those worries could be put to rest? At IAA Mobility in Munich, CATL, one of the world’s biggest battery makers, unveiled a new technology that could revolutionize EVs. Shenxing Pro: Go Far, Last Long…
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DefenseNews

Small defense firms warn shutdown will hurt industrial base

September 30, 2025
A collection of small defense technology firms and entrepreneurs is urging lawmakers of both parties to avert a looming government shutdown, warning such a closure would hurt the defense industrial base and startup firms. In a Monday letter to leaders of both parties in the…
DefenseNews

EU vows haste in ‘drone wall’ plan for eastern borders

September 30, 2025
BERLIN — The European Union has jump-started the development of a so-called “drone wall” to protect European skies against incursions by unmanned aerial vehicles from Russia, alongside a broader set of measures designed to protect the eastern flank of the continent. The package of proposed measures will be called Eastern Flank Watch and was announced by EU Commission President Ursula von…
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